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Barking dogs rushed through the gates to splash in the newly filled swimming pools with waterfalls on "Swim Park Grand Re-Opening Day" May 10 at one of Middletown's most bucolic dog kennels, located on a horse farm in Chapel Hill.

Gordon County Board of Education Chair William Tyner received unanimous approval from board members Monday for the appointment of Bobby Hall to take the place of recently resigned board member Scott Williams.

Comedian Lucy Porter is returning to the stage after a two-year break and will be taking her tour to Teddington's Landmark Arts Centre this month.

A YMCA camp in western Wisconsin has been cleaned after more than 50 children from a Minnesota school district were sickened with norovirus.

AS Samantha Schofield walked out of her front door late last August, she was faced with the chilling sight of a botched arson attempt, with unlit matches strewn around her gate.

President Barack Obama highlighted his recent jobs tour Saturday, emphasizing a need to focus on improving the economy rather than getting distracted by other issues in the nation's capital.

A teenager who led Ohio authorities to the bodies of two dead brothers, who were reported missing a week ago, has now been charged in their deaths, police said Friday.

Most high school seniors are excitedly preparing to put on their cap and gown and looking forward to the future right now.

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Police say a mother found drowned in a southern Indiana creek along with her two children killed them before committing suicide.

Lillian Hill's Head Start classroom at Camelot Elementary School is bustling and filled with kids the Friday before Mother's Day.

BEST Album winners Alt-J hope to take more care of their Ivors trophy than they did over last year's Mercury Prize.

A school bus carrying severely disabled students home from a trip to the zoo rolled over Thursday on a highway near Indianapolis, injuring a dozen people, including five children, state police said.

The following story was provided by AOLJobs.com By David Schepp Getting a summer job is a rite of passage for many young people.

For years, numerous Jamaican fraudsters have conned mostly elderly Americans out of their retirement savings by promising that they've won millions in an international lottery but they need to wire a payment to cover taxes.

Her father, Francis Ford Coppola, was there to premiere a work-in-progress cut of a film he had spent years wrestling with: "Apocalypse Now." "I have nice memories of Cannes," Coppola said in an interview Thursday on the roof of the Palais, the festival center.

Shakira has confirmed that she won't be returning as a coach on "The Voice" next season.

The highest number of backpacks of food handed out to needy school children was 7,158 during a week in February, said Larry Gunkel, a Food Bank official running the program.

Some Lower East Side residents are angry that a garden where their kids play is being turned into a construction site.

About this sponsorship: In honor of the 60th anniversary of Sir Edmund Hillary ' s historic ascent of Mount Everest, Patch and Grape-Nuts are teaming up to highlight those who inspire people around them to climb their own mountains.